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xbps - xtraeme's build package system.
It is a simple build package system that uses Xstow to allow packages
to be available at a master directory.
xbps uses proplib, a property container object library and it's almost the
same one available for NetBSD. Be sure to have it installed before using
xbps. You can get it at:
http://code.google.com/p/portableproplib/
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HOW TO USE IT
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Before using xbps, some required utilities need to be built and installed into
the utils/ directory. You can do this by issuing a "make" command in the
top level directory.
Once you download it, you should edit the configuration file located at the
xbps directory. By default it uses the xbps directory in your $HOME.
If XBPS_CONFIG_FILE is not set or specified from the command line with the
-c flag, it will first try to use the default location at
/usr/local/etc/xbps.conf, and as last resort in current directory.
Once that you read the "xbps.conf" file and configured it, you can start
installing packages by using the command:
$ xbps.sh install glib
While installing your first package, if xbps couldn't find the Xstow program
specified at the configuration file with XBPS_XSTOW_CMD, the Xstow package
will be installed and "stowned".
If the package is properly installed, it will be "stowned" automatically.
``stowned<65><64> means that this package is available in the master directory,
on which xpbs has copied all files from DESTDIR/<pkgname>.
To remove a currently installed (and stowned) package, you can use:
$ xbps.sh remove glib
Please note that when you remove it, the package will also be removed
from XBPS_DESTDIR and previously "unstowned".
Summary, to stow an already installed package (into XBPS_DESTDIR/<pkgname>):
$ xbps.sh stow glib
and to unstow an already installed (stowned) package:
$ xbps.sh unstow glib
You can also print some stuff about any template, e.g:
$ xbps.sh info glib
To list installed (stowned) packages, use this:
$ xbps.sh list
To only extract the distfiles, without configuring/building/installing:
$ xbps.sh extract foo
To not remove the build directory after successful installation:
$ xbps.sh -C install blah
To only fetch the distfile:
$ xbps.sh fetch blah
To only install the package, _without_ stowning it into the master directory:
$ xbps.sh install-destdir blob
To list files installed by a package, note that package must be installed
into destination directory first and you must specify package name plus
version, i.e: vim-7.2:
$ xbps.sh listfiles blob-2.4
That's all for now folks. I hope you find it useful, as I do.
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PERFORMANCE
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xbps is really fast, trust me. That was one of my reasons to make my own
pkgsrc/ports alike system.
If you want benchmarks, here is one: building libX11 and all its dependencies
required (not included building xstow) with xbps:
251.20s real 121.36s user 53.94s system
versus pkgsrc (make install clean clean-depends and digest previously
installed):
450.41s real 167.58s user 97.31s system
That's more or less 40% faster! that's the price you pay for having those
wrappers in pkgsrc that aren't very useful on NetBSD :-)
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Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@gmail.com>